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Crooks and crypto: a seedy underworld in South Africa

The Mpumalanga police, for example, arrested two suspects in January for their involvement in a kidnapping scheme in which ransom was asked for in bitcoin.

Crypto Trading Platform OKCoin Expands Its Services and Opens Office in Malta

Apart from expanding its trading, OKCoin has opened an office in Malta in the blockchain accelerator and hub dubbed chiliZ Blockchain Campus.

Geneva fintech firm strikes deal to improve crypto security

The firm plans to integrate the solution within its own banking system and will also offer it to custodian banks, brokers, crypto vaults and exchanges.

UBS-led banking consortium advances with blockchain-based settlement project, plans to issue USC token in 2020

The project builds on the “utility settlement coin” (USC) project, which was first proposed by UBS in collaboration with fintech startup Clearmatics back in 2015.

A Billionaire Reportedly Wants 25% of all Available Bitcoin

No matter how small the change is in the price, it will impact the trade value because a huge amount of bitcoin is involved.

FSB Calls for ‘Forward-Looking Approach’ to Regulating Crypto-Assets

The Group of 20 is also expected to urge FATF to draft new measures to prevent criminal exploitation of cryptocurrencies and similar crypto-products

Is it worth investing pension funds in cryptocurrency?

Owing to the tough economic conditions that we live in, it is very imperative to prepare for the future by planting a seed today so that the tree grows in the coming days.

BoA’s Erica Not As Renowned As Alexa, But Picking Up Fans Fast

This reviewer, like many early Erica watchers, noted that Erica had the same problem so many voice and AI products have — the concept was much better than the execution.

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South African Cryptocurrency Exchange OVEX recently closed a second successful round of funding lead by Invictus Capital, the firm which founded CRYPTO20 - the world’s first tokenized index fund.

Bahamas Central Bank Targets 2020 Launch for Its Digital Currency

The central bank has yet to announce on which Family Islands the pilot program will be run

Emirates NBD taps AWS for AI-enabled bank

The UAE-based bank has gone all in on AWS AI, IoT and natural language processing technology as it seeks to build a more personalised retail banking experience for its customers.

Bundesbank Ridicules Blockchain: Not a ‘Breakthrough’ Technology

The trial project was a joint effort between the Bundesbank and Deutsche Boerse launched in 2016, which concluded at the end of last year.

Crypto in Africa: SA crypto fest 2019 and crypto-themed socks

The conference will be held in Cape Town on September 7, 2019.

Banks are replacing human tellers with bots to avoid robberies

The modern-day Bonnie and Clyde likely would not make it far, even at banks just off of Del Prado.

Blackstone Majority-Owned Indian Tech Firm Partners With Bitfury on Trade Finance Project

“A digital representation of the liquidity that’s trapped inside this supply chain and leveraging that representation to make trade transactions more seamless and transparent to everyone.”

Blockchain: a question of scale

Few technologies demonstrate the technological change across the financial services industry better than distributed ledger technology (DLT). We believe that blockchain will continue to revolutionise financial services and will become the operating system

Bitcoin, Blockchain & AI